On 06/01/2015 23:07, John Pickard wrote:
Good morning everyone,
Many thanks for the replies to my (slightly trivial) question re Fri
13. I now have a better understanding of how to predict which days to
stay in bed, avoid walking under ladders, and not kicking black cats!
If nothing else, the replies show that dates are rather tricky things
with some interesting mathematics behind them. Wouldn't it be simpler
to move to decimal time and a decimal calendar? (NOT a serious question!)
Cheers, John
John Pickard
john.pick...@bigpond.com
Napoleon tried decimal time, and he was defeated and exiled twice (this
year is the 200th. anniversary of Waterloo)
As for the calendar, the orbits of Earth and Moon would have to be
shifted to give us different length years and months; and, as for the
week, I quite like the idea of Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday being associated with the Sun, Moon, Mars,
Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn. If we were to have a ten day week,
we would have to add Uranus, Neptune and Pluto; and some people say that
Pluto is only a 'minor planet' so that would start new arguments :-)
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Richard Mallett
Eaton Bray, Dunstable
South Beds. UK
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